One comment said 'Lies, damned lies and statistics' in that the stats had been used to bolster a weak argument that City are not a big club in waiting.

Each Football League side was ranked on their average attendance this season, the number of seasons spent in the top flight, seasons since they were last in the top flight, as well as the number of times they have won and come second in major competitions.

All this data was put together to reveal that the Sky Blues are, apparently, the 25th biggest sleeping giant in the Football League, below the likes of Luton Town, Bradford City and Notts County.

However, these stats have proved to be a very simplistic way of looking at things with focus needed on the last 50 years that resonate more with the present than distorting the statistics.

This set of results is merely an interpretation of the data and in another interpretation the results may have been different.

While City sit in 19th position in the League One table, just three points off the drop zone, the club has the potential to be a Championship club at the least.

The Sky Blues are probably the biggest club in League One based on trophies won, seasons spent in the top-flight and average attendance - while Coventry is the tenth largest city in the UK with a population estimated to be at 329,810 in 2013.